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# Motivation
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As a scientist you need to produce plots.
The question is how to plot?
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You usually face large data sets
That you want to process in different manner
and plot one aspect of it.
**plot and compare subsets of large data sets**
You also may want to compair a single aspect
of different data set, or different aspect of
a single data set.
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You usually face large data sets,
which you want to process in different manner
to extract and plot a single aspect of this data set.
But you may also want to compare a single aspect
of different data sets, or on the contrary different aspects
of a single data set.
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**plot fast and interactively**
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And you may want to do in a fast and interactive
manner, but most of it, you want to control what
manner.
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**be sure what you plot**
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But the most important for a scientist is to control what
you do and be sure of what you plot.
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Finally, after spending time on a single plot
you want to be able to use it for various data sets,
make it pretty, and be able to keep track of your
plots, reusing them and having a consistency between
version of the plot. Processing large dataset with
the same ploting procedure. And also you don't want
to rethink tomuch when you come back after a week or
two how you did that plot.
**clear and transparent way to plot**
These are the basic reason of myplotlib.
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Plots are the key value of your work.
You want to spend time on the quality of the content and form.
Not on the technical aspect of how to plot what.
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**reuse, improve, and combine your plots**
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After spending time on designing the content and the
form of a single plot you want to be able to use it for
various data sets without loosing consistence between
versions of the plot.
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**keep track of your plots over long periods**
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Finally, when you come back on some former work,
you don't want to rethink about the technique,
you want to start from the same point as before
from another point of view.
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# These are the basic features of `myplotlib` and much more.
myplotlib allows you to design a plot, that consist
of only one single file that can be combined with any
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your plot is in a unique file indpendntly how many time
you use it in various configurations, any changes will
be spread, allowing fast and consistent corrections.
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to summarize myplotlib can:
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